What's there to be unsure about? Insert public address and receive some bitcoin. The only concern I could imagine is the data that could possibly be mined by associating the IP and HTML headers of the request. I'm not really that concerned but I did setup a separate receiving address for services like these.

Thanks for posting this list, Bob. I'm still in the process of synchronizing my bitcoin client, and can hardly wait to start using it. The notion of being able to get involved without having to invest any dinosaur money first is a definite incentive for people who may entertain doubts about the bitcoin experience.

Newbies don't need to settle for some small amount of bitcents if they want bitcoins. They can just use DialCoin.com to pay for bitcoins with SMS.

That website doesn't work if you're in the US...and besides, every Bit counts

Starting Christmas it will be open to US, Canada, and 20 additional countries. ^_^

I KNOW WHAT MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT IS!!! :DDD

IF YOU JUST SO HAPPEN, BY SOME HAPHAZARD CHANCE, TO BE FROM THE YUBA-SUTTER AREA, PLEASE JOIN FACEBOOK.COM/GROUPS/OCCUPY.YS. UNLIKE THE REST OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT, THIS SECT IS BIPARTISAN. BECAUSE A POPULIST MOVEMENT SHOULD INCLUDE EVERYONE!

For those who don't have the resources to put together a GPU mining rig, you can also mine bitcoins with your CPU using a web-based pool named http://bitcoinplus.com. It uses some kind of java juju to mine bitcoins in the background, and the payouts are understandably miniscule (currently 0.00004446 BTC per payout), but if you're new to bitcoin, it's the easiest way to start earning them. You have to keep a browser tab opened on that site to keep it running, but just let it run 24/7 and you can generate a payout every 2-3 hours, depending on your CPU. If you have multiple computers, you can run it on all of them simultaneously. You can also install a tiny wordpress plug-in on your blog to ask visitors to help you generate bitcoins and have their payouts sent to your wallet (see http://www.bitcoinplus.com/miner/embeddable for details).

These sites are really useful to check to see if your particular bitcoin installation is working. That's about all I've used them for. Although, back in the day I did receive 5 bc from the faucet. Of course, they were worth pennies then.